Friday, 8 June 2012

A late post today. We were wakened by the alarm at 5:30am ready for our long day. The rental car was collected from Enterprise and we headed off for our meeting with eldest son and his partner. It’s now eight months since I gave up vehicles in favour of narrowboats and the change in attitude was quite pronounced.

Apparently other drivers don’t like you going at walking pace and no amount of hand signals or sounding the horn could convince oncoming traffic to pass on our left! Don’t they realise that by travelling so fast they can damage the kerbing?

We couldn’t believe our luck on finding a free short stay mooring at the rear of Hatton Cross Tube station. Actually we couldn’t see any CART mooring restriction signs! However the lock warden turned up 5 minutes later and gave Jan a scolding telling her to move on! She explained we were novices and didn’t realise no mooring was permitted. The excuse wasn’t accepted and she was told to purchase a mooring ticket for the local marina. Fortunately eldest son and his partner turned up and we departed.

I’ll leave the story on where we went for tomorrow as it’s now quite late and frankly I’m bushed!. However I can’t resist leaving a couple of photos

This blog is about us, Tom and Jan.
After a decade of travelling from 'down-under' every two years to spend a brief few weeks having a wonderful canal holiday we decided to eliminate the travel and do it full time on retirement. In 2011 we moved to the UK and built Waiouru before spending 6 wonderful years cruising.
In 2017 we sold our lovely boat and moved back to Perth, West Australia where other adventures are on the 'bucket list'.